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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 5 October 2020 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Hurricane force wind & high wave warning issued for Gulf of Alaska

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-rare-hurricane-force-wind-warning-was-just-issued-for-alaska/ar-BB19sk2P

Geologists condemn plan for Line 5 oil pipeline tunnel beneath Straits of Mackinac

• https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/09/28/geologists-condemn-line-5-tunnel-plan-permitting-the-project-at-this-time-would-be-a-mistake/

Update: Bunker Hill maiden resource in Silver Valley of Idaho

• https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/28/2100172/0/en/Bunker-Hill-Provides-Exploration-Update-and-Announces-Maiden-Resource.html

Germany begins new search for radioactive nuclear waste storage site

• https://www.startribune.com/germany-launches-new-search-for-nuclear-waste-storage-site/572561142/ Drone-based photogrammetry new addition to research tools for structures, mapping & modeling

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-drone-based-photogrammetry-addition-geologic.html Hamiltonians love red rocks and red rock country

• https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/red-rock-country-moab In Memoriam: Charles Welby (1926-2020) – oil field geologist & Professor Emeritus

• https://www.the-dispatch.com/story/obituaries/2020/09/29/charles-welby/3573459001/ Integrated geological & geophysical study for onshore O&G exploration in Angola

• https://www.africaoilandpower.com/2020/09/25/trois-consulting-ddms-launch-onshore-geological-study-in-angola/

Partnership signs memorandum of understanding to improve access to drinking water that lack pipeline & municipal water systems on Navajo Nation

• https://www.nhonews.com/news/2020/sep/29/navajo-tech-new-mexico-tech-agree-focus-improved-a/ Monitoring water in lakes in Kilauea Volcano crater

• https://eos.org/features/from-lava-to-water-a-new-era-at-kilauea

Geology Lecture Series will be virtual – focus on Gold Rush, seismicity & 1906 San Francisco EQ • https://theworldlink.com/lifestyles/geology-lecture-series-gold-rush-san-francisco-earthquakes-and-seismic-

future/article_b7950de0-fc5e-11ea-8657-6366d5ef5b65.html • Live-stream access: https://livestream.com/swocc/geology2019-20

In Memoriam: Michael B. Rowlands (1948-2020) – Geologist & mailman

• https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/qconline/name/a-obituary?page=lifestory&pid=196872321 Paleomagnetic records from Black Sea sediments reveal 70,000-year history of geomagnetic excursions

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/the-restless-geomagnetic-field-over-the-past-70000-years • Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JB019225

Simulating atmospheric gravity waves – key to understanding energy transfer from troposphere to thermosphere

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/successfully-simulating-atmospheric-gravity-waves Toward a better understanding of the role of dust in the atmosphere

• https://eos.org/articles/have-we-got-dust-all-wrong Toward a better understanding of the impacts of geoengineering strategies for Arctic sea ice “management” – the need to understand unintended consequences

• https://eos.org/opinions/implications-of-sea-ice-management-for-arctic-biogeochemistry Big surprise: radiation levels on Moon are much greater than on Earth

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moon-radiation-leves-hazardous_n_5f6e4b85c5b6cdc24c18e66c Volcanic explosion in El Salvador impacted Maya civilization 431 CE

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/new-data-on-a-volcanic-eruption-that-scattered-ash-across-mayan-lands/

OASIS satellite looking to find water buried beneath the deserts

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/US_Qatar_Partnership_Aims_to_Find_Buried_Water_in_Earths_Deserts_999.html

Global whole lithosphere isostasy

• https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GC009150 First fossil feather found in 1861 was 150 myo & belonged to Archaeopteryx

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/archaeopteryx-feather-08905.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65336-y

New research disputes that Pterosaurs had protofeathers - branched pycnofibers vs protofeathers

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/pterosaur-pycnofibers-08896.html Gravicalymene bakeri - previously unknows species of 450 myo trilobite

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/gravicalymene-bakeri-08892.html • Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2020.1797874

New insights into fluvial dynamics – only consistent attribute is change

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-gain-insights-river-dynamics.html Temperature & acidification affect calcareous phytoplankton coccolithophore communities

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-ocean-acidification-effects-calcareous-phytoplankton.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69519-5

Planetary geology: Sols 2897-2898 – marker bed on Mars

• https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/sols-2897-2898-marker-bed-in-focus/ Honoring Sir Pawel Edmund Strzelecki (1797-1873) – explorer, geologist & philanthropist

• http://ampoleagle.com/sir-pawel-edmund-strzelecki-explorer-geologist-and-philanthropist-p14787-227.htm • https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6753661/praise-to-a-great-pole-paul-strzelecki/

Honoring father-son team: Sir William Dawson & George Mercer Dawson

• https://pictouadvocate.com/2020/09/29/like-father-like-son/ In Memoriam: William “Bill” Avery Hollweg (1936 – 2020) – international petroleum geologist

• https://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/mrt/william-avery-hollweg-bill-condolences/196878162?cid=full Millions of acres leased in Nevada in search of oil

• https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/desert-wildcatters-dream-of-riches-after-34-years-of-dry-holes

Perspective: “To save the planet, we must understand it” – Note: humans not the planet may need saving as humans are driving the extinction of Geology in education system

• https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2020/sep/29/get-talking-save-planet-we-must-understand-it

Volcanic eruptions shaped 2,000 years of history

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2020/09/29/how-volcanic-eruptions-shaped-2000-years-of-history/#3c3b20f1e698

Granite boulders put in place 60 years ago now present a problem for construction of new Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel

• https://www.pilotonline.com/news/transportation/vp-nw-cbbt-expansion-rock-problem-20200929-5mfd76h5o5cahejr7mcdduwmpi-story.html

Large-scale liquefaction in a landslide in Shilong – video

• https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2020/10/01/shillong-liquefaction/ Another swarm of earthquakes along San Andreas fault system in southern California

• https://www.newsweek.com/san-andreas-fault-california-earthquake-swarm-september-2020-1535515 • https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/09/30/southern-california-earthquake-swarm-48-quakes-in-five-hours-

magnitude-3-to-4-9/ Precariously balanced rocks aid in earthquake hazard prediction

• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/precarious-rocks-help-refine-earthquake-hazard-california • Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000182

Ice core reveals 6-year climate anomaly in Europe – presence of cold salty air from 1914-1919

• https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/1/ice-core-research/ • Paper https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GH000277

Using satellite InSAR imaging to map groundwater use & subsidence in Central Valley of California

• https://phys.org/news/2020-10-satellite-imaging-groundwater-california-central.html • Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abb55c

Iodic acid influences cloud formation at the North Pole

• https://phys.org/news/2020-10-climate-iodic-acid-cloud-formation.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18551-0

Simulation drilling for geothermal resources to 5,000 meters – i.BOGS & drill.BOGS modules

• https://phys.org/news/2020-10-simulator-drilling-depths-meters.html Areas in Los Angeles amplified shaking during 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-network-reveals-large-variations-la.html Widening of US Highway 89 through Davis County, Utah, hampered by enormous boulders

• https://www.standard.net/news/transportation/state-running-into-some-delays-on-massive-reconstruction-of-us-89/article_da283ae1-fb28-50bd-bffe-4feecf438d7d.html

UConn will further study impacts of pyrrhotite in concrete foundations

• https://today.uconn.edu/2020/10/uconn-team-earns-grant-research-crumbling-foundation-problem/# PELE to study multiphase flow behavior of pyroclastic density currents

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-lethal-volcanic-phenomena-earth.html?MvBriefArticleId=58658 Diamonds are not forever – diamond dissolution

• https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2020-diamond-dissolution?MvBriefArticleId=58658 *****************************************

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 5 October 2020 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Slide show of Fall foliage

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/these-stunning-photos-of-fall-foliage-remind-us-why-we-love-autumn/ss-BB191MeV

World Rabies Day was 28 September but still a great need for awareness

• https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAAPHIS/bulletins/2a1f8a9 CRS Report: The US Energy Information Administration

• https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46524 City of Honolulu withdraws from HART rail project due to escalating costs

• https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/09/honolulu-pulls-out-of-public-private-partnership-plan-for-rail/ Utah asks federal government to delay decision on underground Lake Powell pipeline to transport Colorado River water – 14,000 public comments on draft EIS

• https://apnews.com/article/arizona-colorado-utah-lakes-environment-89063af637c16e656039e2b16e9eaa9c • Lake Powell Pipeline project: https://utahrivers.org/lake-powell-pipeline

Disaster declaration issued after one death from Naegleria fowleri in Lake Jackson, Texas

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-governor-issues-disaster-declaration-after-brain-eating-amoeba-kills-6-year-old-boy/ar-BB19vjt1

Fatal falls in New Hampshire: at Arethusa Falls in Crawford Notch State Park & Rumney Climbing Rooks

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/hiker-falls-to-death-from-waterfall-in-n-h-park-state-s-3rd-climbing-related-death-in-a-week/ar-BB19zR9S

Half of emissions in Houston, Texas, are from transportation & emphasize need to reduce carbon emissions to address climate change – Houston is “car-centric”

• https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/transportation/2020/09/24/382606/transportation-creates-half-of-houstons-emissions-heres-how-that-could-change/

US Army COE reinstates permits for construction of Mountain Valley Pipeline project

• https://apnews.com/article/mountains-technology-business-virginia-environment-11886393dccc61bce4d43ccf7b22b30d

• https://roanoke.com/business/local/mountain-valley-pipeline-regains-permit-to-cross-streams-wetlands/article_fa8f564b-122a-5ea0-b801-bb65e8776d19.html

New Jersey PBU order sets parameters for publicly accessible light-duty EV charging stations

• https://njbmagazine.com/njb-news-now/bpu-moves-to-increase-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-in-nj/ More hype on global warming & carbon emissions

• https://www.globalccsinstitute.com/resources/publications-reports-research/net-zero-and-geospheric-return-actions-today-for-2030-and-beyond/

• Report: https://www.globalccsinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Netzero-and-Geospheric-Return-2.pdf Wyoming appealing to hunters to come kill mountain goats in Grand Teton National Park

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/wyoming-appeals-hunters-visit-state-162108760.html 1700-km inland freight rail project will link Melbourne & Brisbane, Australia

• https://www.2gb.com/freight-rail-project-an-engineering-marvel-connecting-capital-cities/ Risks of homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle

• https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/september/studying-world-water-cycle-ecohydrology-diverse-vegetation/ Perspective: “Up in Smoke” – direct & indirect radiative feedbacks and risks

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00647-3 Dangerously high levels of lead in soils in New York City parks & communities pose threats of poisoning sincere there is “no safe level” of lead in the bloodstream

• https://eos.org/articles/leaded-soil-endangers-residents-in-new-york-neighborhoods More O&G wells in southwestern Pennsylvania linked to multiple heath complaints

• https://eos.org/articles/more-gas-wells-linked-to-more-symptoms-in-pennsylvania-residents • Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237325

River capture affects the evolution of aquatic organisms

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-river-capture-affects-the-evolution-of-aquatic-organisms Centuries of human colonization and development have significantly impacted the environment – contaminants & landscape modification

• https://eos.org/science-updates/critical-agents-of-change-at-earths-surface Visualizing range of Electric Vehicles on major highway routes

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/range-evs-major-highway-routes/ 3D visualization of US Cities with highest economic output

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/3d-map-the-u-s-cities-with-the-highest-economic-output/ Tarantula season at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2020/09/its-tarantula-season-bandelier-national-monument

Jade became symbol of environmental tragedy in Myanmar • https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/29/915604532/how-a-beloved-gemstone-became-a-

symbol-of-environmental-tragedy-in-myanmar Monarch butterfly migration is at risk – plans to help save it

• https://theconversation.com/monarch-butterflies-spectacular-migration-is-at-risk-an-ambitious-new-plan-aims-to-help-save-it-136479

Perspective: Disaster vulnerability & flooding outside the 100-year flood zone

• https://theconversation.com/homes-are-flooding-outside-femas-100-year-flood-zones-and-racial-inequality-is-showing-through-146728

The “dirty” secret behind “clean electric vehicles”

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2020/08/02/the-dirty-secrets-of-clean-electric-vehicles/#23a80e8a650b Brown bear broke into the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage and killed an alpaca

• https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2020/09/23/brown-bear-breaks-into-alaska-zoo-kills-alpaca-named-caesar/

Grizzly bear accustomed to human food is put down in Denali National Park

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2020/09/grizzly-bear-accustomed-human-food-put-down-denali-national-park

Long-banned (legacy) toxic chemicals still accumulating in birds in the Great Lakes region

• https://www.ehn.org/great-lakes-pollution-birds-2647732152.html • Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020320201?via%3Dihub

Paracelsus said: “All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.” – in this case, too much licorice candy

• https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/rare-case-of-black-licorice-poisoning-kills-man-in-massachusetts/ International pet trade threatens thousands of species

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Pet_trade_threatens_thousands_of_species_especially_reptiles_999.html National Preparedness Month – landslides & sinkholes

• https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-preparedness-month-2020-landslides-and-sinkholes New volcano monitors increase safety

• https://tdn.com/opinion/columnists/community-voices-new-volcano-monitors-increase-safety/article_4f84006c-4368-57b3-8a86-f8c50e7429d6.html

“global warming hype” – Perspective: how humanity can survive existential threat

• https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/climate-change-an-existential-threat-to-humanity-and-how-we-can-survive-643267

Mining legacy in Goa is taking toll on agriculture

• https://scroll.in/article/974419/two-years-after-mining-was-stopped-in-goa-it-is-still-taking-a-toll-on-the-states-farmers

Wildfire containment research addresses risk & safety – consider ecological, social & policy

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-safety.html UK onshore O&G regulations are “woefully inadequate” – risk of environmental damage

• https://drillordrop.com/2020/09/29/woefully-inadequate-regulation-of-uk-onshore-oil-and-gas-risks-environmental-damage-new-study/

Toxic hexavalent chromium could form in drinking water under appropriate chemical conditions

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-toxic-chromium-species.html

CRS Report: “Daylight Saving Time” - time to stop ‘spring forward-fall back’ • https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45208

Cause of the 1990s cholera epidemic in Argentina

• https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-1990s-argentina-cholera-epidemic-uncovered.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18647-7

Optimistic that all basic human needs can be met by 2050 – decent living

• https://phys.org/news/2020-10-decent-earth.html • Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307512?via%3Dihub

Perspective: change the metric for assessing wildfires to emphasize human impacts not nature

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02740-4 Elephants who eat plastic garbage often die of starvation

• https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/herd-wild-sri-lankan-elephants-141653390.html Providence, Rhode Island, now getting all needed power from solar

• https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20201001/providence-water-utility-now-getting-all-its-power-from-solar CORONAVIRUS Coronavirus COVID-19 statistics by country (click on USA to get State statistics)

• https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ • https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/ • interactive maps: https://geodacenter.github.io/covid/map.html

Opioid deaths increasing since “pandemic” declared

• https://news.yahoo.com/vermont-making-progress-against-opioid-190310057.html Justification for slaughtering massive numbers of sharks – “short-sighted, unpredictable & unsustainable”

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/500-000-sharks-may-die-192510978.html Frequency of alcohol consumption increases significantly

• https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/29/health/americans-drinking-more-pandemic-wellness-trnd/index.html Study suggests people with Neanderthal genes are susceptible to more severe cases

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-neanderthal-dna_n_5f74a8edc5b6374c5587ef63 Reusables can be safe to use – can avoid increasing use of single-use plastics

• https://www.treehugger.com/reusables-are-safe-during-pandemic-5077495 • Report: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/greenpeace-report-reusables-are-

doable-august-2020.pdf Exposure to the virus or to the toxicity of disinfectants and cleaning agents

• https://www.ehn.org/cleaning-products-toxics-covid-19-2647681704.html History of mismanagement has exacerbated conditions in Nepal

• https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/nepal-in-the-face-of-intersectional-crises-a-history-of-mismanagement/

Perspective: growing concerns regarding vaccine trails

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02706-6

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 5 October 2020 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford Waters off the coast of Galicia, Spain, closed briefly after orca attacks sailboats

• https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/galician-coastal-waters-briefly-closed-to-sailboats-after-orca-attacks Part 1: history of the three-masted schooner Charles C Dame – Saving the crew

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2020/09/saving-the-crew-of-the-charles-c-dame/ Viña Aresti planting vineyards close to the Pacific Ocean in Chile

• https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2020/09/vina-aresti-extreme-results-expected-from-new-coastal-project/ Urban development will continue to exacerbate coastal exposure in the Mediterranean

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-future-urban-exacerbates-coastal-exposure.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-70928-9

Dredging underway in the Big Foot Slough in Pamlico Sound

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2020/09/dredging-near-ocracoke-village-underway/ Hiker falls to death from tree along coastal cliff in Oswald State Park in Oregon

• https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news/hiker-death-seaside-man-dies-in-fall-from-coastal-cliff/article_cbd39462-01ad-11eb-a07e-335f87392b96.html

Port Authority of New York & New Jersey announces new Clean Construction Program

• https://www.silive.com/coronavirus/2020/09/port-authority-launches-clean-construction-program.html Compounding impact of severe weather events on coastal communities

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200922135747.htm • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18339-2

$20M pedestrian 400-fot long bridge planned to connect New London & $100M National Coast Guard Museum

• https://www.theday.com/local-news/20200925/state-presses-ahead-with-plans-for-20-million-pedestrian-bridge-in-new-london

US Coast Guard to require navigation impact statement for any new bridge replacing cracked West Seattle Bridge crossing the Duwamish Waterway

• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/a-new-west-seattle-bridge-could-be-even-higher-than-the-current-140-foot-tall-span/

Demolitions facilitate damage assessment of Pensacola Bay Bridge • https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2020/09/28/pensacola-bay-bridge-hurricane-sally-demolitions-

begin/3566003001/ Enghaveparken - “climate park” in coastal Copenhagen now doubles as flood infrastructure

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90557179/this-climate-park-in-copenhagen-now-doubles-as-flood-infrastructure Caribbean beach residents continue to explore ways to mitigate Sargassum

• https://eos.org/articles/saint-lucia-works-to-release-itself-from-sargassums-stranglehold BPA is widespread on beaches – lying on the sand results in exposure & potential health risk

• https://www.ehn.org/bpa-plastic-on-beaches-2647858299.html 300 million delta dwellers vulnerable to tropical cyclones & flooding – people put themselves in harm’s way

• https://phys.org/news/2020-09-million-delta-dwellers-vulnerable-cyclones.html • Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18531-4

Planting mangroves in wake of tsunami

• https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/lens-creation-planting-mangroves-tsunamis-wake/en West coast of India is too vulnerable to tsunami

• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/west-coast-too-vulnerable-to-tsunami-study/articleshow/78388688.cms • Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00024-020-02587-w

Evidence that manatees were in Texas Gulf Coast during the Pleistocene

• https://phys.org/news/2020-10-ice-age-manatees-texas-home.html Healthy corals in Biscayne Bay

• https://phys.org/news/2020-10-healthy-corals-biscayne-bay-scientists.html